I received a postcard this week from Dr Jane Aronson's ("The Orphan Doctor") WorldWide Orphans Foundation about their new "gift" registry and I thought it was a terrific idea.
You have the chance to bid on critically needed equipment, services, and supplies for children living in Ethiopia, Vietnam, Bulgaria, and all over the world.
This is not an adoption charity. The foundation's focus is on children without families who remain in their birth countries. It is a way to "give back" to children just like our own children who in great need of just about everything.
The bid prices range from $20,000 to $100. It's understandable that we APs may want to support causes more related to our own children's birth countries, and we should certainly do that. But I think it's also important to think more globally about children's issues and that is why organizations like WWO are so important.
WWO First' Annual Gift Registry -- Surely there is something there we can all "bid" on.
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This is good, I'll add it to the next "Don't Misses" and to the activism page I update.
And although Korea is now viewed as a world economic power rather than a developing country, it still has the same budget issues that prevent the necessary dollars from reaching the children and families in Korea who need them. Maybe it could become one of the countries served by this program.
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